Thursday, October 21, 2004
Bowling for Soup records'Gilligan's Island' song
NEW YORK -- Grammy-nominated Bowling for Soup has recorded a remake of the "Gilligan's Island" theme song for TBS' new reality series, "The Real Gilligan's Island," set to premiere Nov. 30.
The show is based on the '60s comedy that starred Bob Denver. Castaways include a real-life skipper, first mate, millionaire couple, movie star, professor and farm girl, who will work together to try to get off the island.
Episodes are modeled after some of the situations that occurred in the original series, the Atlanta-based cable channel said Wednesday.
In 2003, Bowling for Soup was nominated for a Grammy Award for best pop performance by a duo or group with vocal for "Girl All the Bad Guys Want."
This summer's "Outback Jack" comedy dating show was TBS' first reality venture. TBS also has "He's a Lady," in which men compete to see who can best live as a woman.
Complex envisionedat the Duke's birthplace
DES MOINES, Iowa -- During his film career, John Wayne played many Western and war hero characters who celebrated independence, courage and patriotism.
His screen credits include "Rio Bravo," "Red River," "Fort Apache" and "Sands of Iwo Jima." He was "The Quiet Man" and won an Oscar as Rooster Cogburn in "True Grit," but everyone knew him as the Duke.
Now, the John Wayne Birthplace Society is hoping to expand a complex that includes the tiny Victorian house in Winterset where he was born Marion Morrison on May 26, 1907. His family lived in the four-room house until he was 3. They then moved 12 miles north to Earlham for three years, then on to California, where the legend of John Wayne was born.
The man who owned the Winterset house died in 1980, and the Winterset Chamber of Commerce bought it for $22,500, said David Trask, chairman of the John Wayne Birthplace Society.
"It was a unique opportunity because the birthplace still existed and was virtually untouched," he said.
Trask said the Chamber used it as its own offices until people started stopping by wanting to see where Wayne was born. "We realized we needed to do something," he said.
A welcome center and gift shop were added, and the birthplace now draws about 40,000 visitors a year.
Love ordered to payvictim's medical bills
NEW YORK -- Rocker Courtney Love pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct Wednesday for hitting a clubgoer on the head with a microphone stand during a performance.
Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson granted Love a conditional discharge, meaning her case will be sealed after one year if she pays the victim $2,236 to cover medical expenses, joins a drug-treatment program and does not commit any other crimes.
If Love violates the conditions, she could face 15 days in jail.
"I just wanted it to be over," Love said after the hearing, wearing a long, light-brown suede coat lined with fur. "I played a rock show. I didn't do anything. I wasn't on drugs. Playing a rock show had nothing to do with drugs."
The case stems from an event in March, when Love hit Gregory Burgett, 24, of London, Ky., with a microphone stand as he watched her show at a Manhattan nightclub.
Burgett needed three staples in his head to close the wound, and Love was arrested on misdemeanor charges of reckless endangerment and third-degree assault. Those charges were reduced to one charge of disorderly conduct.
Today's birthdays
Baseball Hall-of-Famer Whitey Ford is 76. Rock singer Manfred Mann is 64. Musician Steve Cropper (Booker T. & amp; the MG's) is 63. Singer Elvin Bishop is 62. TV's Judge Judy Sheindlin is 62. Actor Everett McGill is 59. Musician Lee Loughnane (Chicago) is 58. Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is 55. Musician Charlotte Caffey (The Go-Go's) is 51. Actress-author Carrie Fisher is 48. Singer Julian Cope is 47. Rock musician Steve Lukather (Toto) is 47. Rock musician Che Colovita Lemon is 34. Christian rock musician Charlie Lowell (Jars of Clay) is 31. Actor Jeremy Miller is 28. Actor Will Estes is 26.